Swachha Rail, Swachha Bharat

Question. Which station grabbed first position in A-1 Category stations in Swachh Rail, Swachh Bharat campaign?Options:(a)Jodhpur(b)Jaipur(c)Marwar(d)AhmadabadAnswer: (a)Related Facts:

Minister of railways, Coal, Finance & Corporate Affairs, Piyush Goyal released a third party survey report on station cleanliness conducted by Quality Council of India (QCI).

On the 145th birthday anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, “Swachh BharatAbhiyan” a national level campaign was launched by Government of India to achieve the dreams of a Clean India by October 2nd, 2019.

“Swachh rail, Swachh Bharat” campaign was launched by Ministry of Railways with the mission to improve cleanness across railway station.

Highlight of the survey:

The survey has been conducted for the third time in year 2018.

Indian Railways comprises of more than ten thousand stations, divided in 16 zones. A total of 407 stations were selected for the purpose of assessment and ranking from among 75 stations are in “A 1” and 332 stations are in “A” category stations.

Jodhpur ranked first among “A1” category stations with score of 8%.

Jaipur with score 97.2 and Tirupati with score of 96.5% ranked second and third place respectively among “A1” category.

Marwar (Rajsthan) ranked first among ‘A’ category stations with score of 97.3%.

Phulera (Rajasthan) with score of 96.2 and Warangal (Telangana) with score of 95.6% ranked second and third place respectively among ‘A’ category.

In zonal ranking North Western Railway (NWR) secured first position.

Allahabad junction station of NCR has been adjudged the cleanest station of UP in this cleanliness assessment.

First survey was conducted by IRCTC in 2016 by conducting interview with passengers at stations while second was conducted by Quality Council of India.